Question

You are the director of a company that makes computer power supplies. It is a very competitive market, and your manufacturing is done outside of your country. That location was selected because they have access to materials that would be difficult to source locally.

The government where the manufacturing facility is located permits a much lower wage than is allowed where your headquarters is located. They also permit you to hire workers who are as young as 12 years old, and their environmental standards for disposing electronic waste are much lower than any other location where you do business.

§What issues will this raise?

§How are you going to weigh profits against ethics and sustainability?

§What is the process you use for deciding these issues?

Answer 1

1. It will raise some ethical or moral issues at a personal level. Even though the government allows the company to hire workers as young as 12 years old, allowed the lower wages than headquarters, and have lower standards for disposing the electronic waste, still, the company should try to stick with their ethical obligations as a corporate social responsibility. Otherwise, this will create an ethical issue.

2. I am going to wave profits against the ethics and sustainability by trying to balance them both. I can perform my organizational manufacturing conduct while taking into consideration my ethics and morals at my level, avoiding labor work, and giving workers minimum wage rate, and disposing of their waste while considering the environmental protection techniques.

3. The process I used for deciding these issues are as follows:

First of all, we need to gather all the facts, and then define the ethical issues regarding our problem. Then identify the affected parties through that ethical issue and then identify the consequences for the same. The next step is the identification of relevant principles. Then I consider my character and my responsibilities. After that, I think creatively about the potential and then conclude.